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The Brussels Post, 1918-5-30, Page 2C9Prrfght Etougloon lnifriia Company by special arrangement with Thos. Allem Toronto CHAPTER III. - 1C'ont'd.) Coreeran turned his back and walk- ed away, The newt moment he was dancing with a young woman con- spicuous for her unnaturally yellow hair, vermilion cheeks, and generally mer•etr•ieloes efl'eet. "I didn't want him to get mads" Nora confided plaintively to Jerry. "I don't see why he had to go and get mad." T dont see why you rare if he did." "Oh, I don't care very much. Pur, after all, he'll soon be all right again•" Jerry thought it curious and trying that she: should derive satisfaction from a•ha, prospeet. Ile euggested that if she teas ready to gu home, he was. "Well, I suppose sa " She seemed now more than half reluctant. "It's not a very good crowd for you to ho mixed up in," - getically. "That was why I was thinking-" "Oh, Jerry, I'm glad yoei re taking me home. The little ;perch, the slender• gentle, clinging creature made Jerry's heart thump excitedly. "I'm glad too," he said, and stopped there, throbbing. in- articulate. "I didn't like it in there. I didn't like Charley Corcoran as well in there." "How about me?" "Oh, you, I liked you just as well. Batter." She glanced at him and seemed to cling a little closer, "Yes It was so good to see you." He turned with her from the main street into one that was more quiet, less brightly lighted, "Why, Jerry, where are you going? This isn't the way home." "Don't you want to walk for a lit - le while? I'll take you home after I've talked with you."' She did not reply, and he knew then that she was ready for what he had to say, It made the saying of it easier. "Nora, I love you. I want to marry you, Nora I'll work for you and love you as long as I live." The words flowed front him in a tremulous undertone, the more appeal- ing, the more convincing, perhaps, for their quivering, breathless eagerness. She raid not withdraw her hand from his arm; she marmured, "Oh, Jerry:' "Oh, Nara, don't you love me?" She was not disposed to answer that question, Still she did not withdraw her hand; intent upon exacting all the perquieites of a young woman in her situation, she said: -- "Why do you love me, Jerry.." Why shouldn't he? When she was the pretties„ the smartest, the best? Didn't the sound of her voice hang in his ears and make its own soft music there all day long while the hammers were pounding and the blasts were be- ing blown off ? Wasn't she just a darling through and through? Wasn't ehe, th„ugh? -and suddenly aware that the street was as deserted as it was dark, .and that site had not with- drawn her hand, Jerry seized her in his arms with a wild and joyous emir age, and kissed her, kissed her, kissed her. She stopped him at last with a gentle reproof:— "Why, Jerry, I didn't nay you could do that." "Yes, brit you (fide r, mind it -,i mane? Year -y;u likes! it a little ?"i I don't, know. It was such' aaa etr lige thing for yon to do, Jerry. "�Yt Il -she he -iteted --"I suppose I sort of lilted rt ---a little." And now that need for courage was all past, it was with a wild and jay ,0113 cuuhdeuce that Jerry seized her lin his arms. I almost feel :sorry for Corcoran," ;Jerry cried triumphantly. "stud how I hated him a few moments ego!” i "I wonder if I'm being mean to • him." j Jerry, in some alarm, assured her that she was not "1 think maybe I i am. I, was jut because he liked me so that he kissed me. The e sante 'ea son that you did." ") es. hitt you didn't like it. from 'him and yetu did from me." •aid Jerry !jealously. "So don't be thinking of him any more, Nora darling." j "I won't be thinkingof. him the way I do of you, Jerry. ' •I That qualitieawon pleased him bet- , ter et,ter even than an obedient premise of, .full renunciation could have done; his; soaring .spirits had to lied expres iolr in another rapturous hug and kis., • • "Oh, Nora! I didn't dare hope --I, was afraid you with your talent and all - • "I haven't any talent -that's ally ]:rd's and mother's foeliehuess." j "'They think yon have-- and any-; way they count on your marrying! something more than it mill -hand. This will be an awful blow to them bat van droit ears --not torr much, do; you, Nora T' "I eeuld never have married some, swell, the kind they wanted me to.", The calm crudity of, the statement • grated a little on Jerry, even in the! extremity of his adoration. `•How'; , was I to get the chance? It wasn't ' as if I could ever be a .great artist and have society men always at my feet,", "But even if you could, you wouldn't want to--•nut.now, would you, :Vora?" She laughed and pushed him away.; ed "You mustn't he expecting me to be • too crazy about you all at once." "Yes, but I do. I want you to marry ) me all at once." I "Oh, my goodness, no Sueh a time, as I'd have with the family! I don't dare." i "Waiting won't make ie any easier." "Maybe it will. When they see j that nothing else is likely to happen.! 1 Besides, I couldn't tall them now,. Jerry. Dad's paid for a full term for me at the Conservatory, and I've got to go ahead just as if I meant it. I wouldn't dare not to." • "Anyway we can give them fair warning what to expect." ! • "Indeed we'll not, Jerry clear. Its, Me that has to live in that house, not! you, i5'e'll give therm no warning. at•, all, not until the time 'mutes:" • I "When will the time .erne. Nerve 1 now, Jerry, how van 1 settle a thing like that at the minima ? gut to be thought over." "all riglu, let's begfu to thutlt .bout it. Here it is, 00 end of oetober• what de y'ou say to next spring?' I our muse. term will be over, rind nett be I'll have a raise by then, and anyway I can't wait auty h•ngrr, ;lora darling." � owe'', whybe by the tilhe it gads to bt ,rune." "It's •a month in • midsummer. boring., I� .eitid.o "I'll see how I'm feeling, perhaps, ' when it gets .lung towards April." so they walked and talked in whi.sper:4, all up and down the quiet . streets, and up and down again. lie couldn't take her home, for there they. couldn't talk; :And she wouldn't con , sent to mare with him to his house and eunfide to his mother the happy news. No, she was quite firm on that point; no one should raven suspect it until she announced it to her own family. For you couldn't trust any- body with it secret like that; if yo u did, it would be sure to get round. Aird though it disappointed him that' his mother was not to be enlightened and share in his happiness, he wits' atill too happy to argue: about that; he was still happy enough just to walk and talk •in whispers, and over, and over Nellie when no one could see,' to kiss her and feel her sweet, warm,- kiasee on his lies. 1 And site must have liked it too; , that was the exhilarating and exeit-- ing thought that he finally bore home, with him; for it was late• quite late„ when rhe bade him good -night at her door. INANE8.9REAe IN 9 MINUTES Eliminates all fuaa •work. Malo; tight. wtofeaotse Mbroad, tulle, etc., About .trouble. Saves Boor and helps conserve the Nation's food rrly i (envenlen ankh ,'and clear hands 1 do nnteouch dough. 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I CHAPTER Tv, Jerry felt that it was very hard to! be as happy as be was and net let' people know about it. There was no; satisfaction in having people see you! were happy unless you told them why. Besides, the world began to go wrung in various ways. In the first place, Maxwell was elected to Con-' grecs; even in his radiant condition' Jerry tank this incident deeply to: heart. To him a Congressman had seemed of neeessity a man who tow• -I eyed above other men in character and intellect and virtue; he had believed that the men who sat in Congress' were all patriotic, earnest students of. public questions, high-minded and sincere. That his district should; shouse as it representative a shallow' charlatan chagrined him, made him feel humiliated; the district' was guilty of profaning and polluting the Capitol. It was no mere person-' al resentment in Jerry that cried out at the news of the honor conferred on Maxwell; it was the inborn sense of respect for law and lawmarkers, and of reverence for the institutions of liberty. Then there was the renewal of re- lations between Nora and Charley Corcoran -a renewal Indicating to any casual observer that Corcoran w•as again a stator, and that Nora was. Mrs. Brown Makes a Clean Sweep. "What are you doing, Mrs. Brown; are you moving, or what?" 'lm Sim- mons, had stopped at the little front gate, her curiosity attracted by the sight of all the belongings of the Brown family scattered abort the yard :n the bright spring snnhine. "Do you remember the lecture we heard on home -making last winter? I wrote dwell the little text and it has haunted me ever since: 'Have nothing in your h„me that you tin not know to he useful and believe to he beautiful.' Most people might suppose that I was lust tieing art extra huts, e cleaning, but I am really having it out with my own character. I say to something, "Are ya useful?' and then I say to myself. 'Hare yon enough strength of mind to ret rid of it?'" "I had to he feeling pretty firm be- fore I comb! dm it, but you know as we'll as T do that there is no sense in keeping a let of shift' n, one ever uses," Mre. Brown eontimaed. "I dust that chair, and we all. stumble over it but no one ever alta in it. Tho old whatmet is just a catch-all and is only in the way when we want to get near tete whitlow. • Mrs. Brown was going critically from one article to another. "Now this little table with the drawers can be painted and will mance a convenient place for my sew- ing thing;, but that rickety old stand is of no earthly use." "[tut why did ,you bring everything out, here?" asked Mrs. Simmons. "it was easier to begin with a clean 1 u+e, floodness knows, I'm tired of dusting all the little gimcracks, and I ie tired of seeing full the confusion, I enol. seventeen silly things oil the mantel -piece. Item going to put back the elowk and an old pair of candle- trks that Rasta lovely, now that they re polished. It: rests me just to chink about it. Then I've taken down ail the mueey old calendar's and such thing'• that, were tacked up on the, wall. The harshest thing for me to ',now is what pictures 't ought to keep, but. I am sure the plain wail is better than the eresh that was etude around," Have you had the itting-r•ram to red, Mrs. Brown?" Yee with one of those lovely, meet plain paleen s the lecturer showed ns. I've had it, put right tip to the ceiling, without any border. YON r•atn't inutgleo what -a reliefit i, to )e. cid of that ugly, dark, bi U-fh hur ed paper. The ream is so much more cheerful, and it; looks larger, for some i reason. Come in and see it." The empty room certainly offered an inviting beginning. "Take off your hate Mrs. Simmons, and let us see what we can do with the furniture. Don't you think this blue Scotch rug is pretty with the tan wall? I am so glace I got it, instead of that red Axminster Jones, tried to sell me, The floor looks pretty bad, doeetit. !t? I'd like to have a hard- wood border outside the rig now, so I have sent for some of that patent floor covering and will have it fitted all around the edgee, coming well under trite rug, which lice in the centre. I chose a good woad color to look well with the blue rig, and harmonize with the paper." They went bark into the yard and I Mrs, Brown stopped before a shabby, comfortable old sofa. Ire you use- ful? - Yea, Are you beautiful? No -o, except that there is something' beautiful in being so 'comfy,' I know • ---a fresh -looking slip cover will fix you. IS I can fit covers to the whole family I guess I can do it for a piece. of furniture. I'm just crazy to show what I can do with slip covers and fresh paint!" The two women carried the sofa in- side. "Now that old what -not is amt i ' of the way eve can have the sofa be -i fore the big window, with my little 'sewing -table at this end. Next win-' ter we'll have it face the fireplace, with Re back against the big table, so' 1t will be convenient to the lamp and magazines." Every piece of furniture was chat - longed in turn. Many were found: wanting.. Those that were saved were' carried in and thoughtfully placed.` 'Some were set aside for renewal by means of paint, but others were i heroically discarded, "What aro you going tri do with them ?" said sura Simmons. To her frugal mind Mr:. Brown's wholesale ' elimination looked ithnost wa.eteful. "I am going to send them to i,he Saivation Army. A lot of the stuff we don't used .exn be ked up so it will I he useful for eomr „nr•.'• Fin111, the two ,wuteen satdfrwn to i ytirvey tit, result. "I'd ]level' k,low it wk..; the . arae earn.:' frankly admit- ted Ilia r;iTlre•a, "Hut duentr't it look rout n vtu and ir; tf d?" 'Llys, proem i_ius].eotticntt•dly. eft eertuinly d•oe end ,rfe t. hem the whole. lege 1. i,• a uur;s U, .-.holt the t tfert Iof the ;wino kind of trt:atinrvrt," Cream Wanted SWEET OR CHURNING CREAM ton ctai�pfy r -Acle. "uy exer"s Aear'g,s amt rcuttt u:dly. Our piece next week fifty-two canto 7aTamnor Dairy mad Oreamcry Oo. 743-a ,tine• aC, Weee - Toronto again willing to be wetted. Of course, as she explained to .terry, she wasn't, and it wasn't serious, and there was no need for him to get jealous; she .fust had to peep her family from suspecting that she was engaged, and she eouldn't. do it unless shlt anw rtome- thing of other men. Every Wednesday night while .terry was drilling in the Y,ILC,A, hall, she :Ltd C'orcortm went into the city to some play or other. Jerry remons- trated with her, told her it was unfair to Corcoran and very disturbing to himself; but she only laughed and said that he !media have Corcoran on his mind. She was going to have what fun elle could while she tvas still unmarried, and as for Charley Corcor- an, he was perfectly well able to take care of himself, To ,Jerry all this was perplexing --- the more su when, in a further en- deavor to elucidate and justify her be- havior, Nora explained to him that they weren't really engaged yet, were just expecting to be. Such -a distinc- tion was too fine fur him to grasp, es- pecially as he was permitted the en- dearments that he had always sup- posed existed legitimately only be- tween those whose intentions were quite definite. Ile concluded that girls had different ideas from men about things, that was all; and so, when he caught himself, as he sometimes slid, questioning or criticizing in his own mind Nora's course, he hastily erected -over her that large, vague sheltering excuse, (To be continued.) England Ploughs by Tractor. Government tractors rapidly are turning the soil for the planting of the coming summer crops. In West Sussex lir one month Government tractors ploughed 1,412 acres. Wood ashes used liberally will benefit flower and vegetable gardens. Italians have perfected a process for making an edible oil, that also can be used in soap and as an illu- mination, from grape seeds. 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Y •%?I P?vS 2t... 1t nl:}il.;l;.%i,}fYgZo�S,t �tq"}�•,•'•<'u,•+.;�r;,,�.t�,.;r4�b+�* ft�#Id512�,f�c'��+x"s4''a�'wfl>�ri• •Act' f• �f,; .dt4s 1f>ti; �p.,.t. ,.rJbk:.�•". ,,Yf Foote Control Cornu. Some surprise has been expreeetel by the general public al the new staga r regulations put in Terve the let. clay of May by the Canada Food heard. People. wondered why the sudden scarcity of sugar, having understood since the first of the year tlmt the ncwa Cuban crop was sufficient to eupply the wants of this country ;Leri the United States, whatever mighe have been the situation in Europe, where Java sugar wlc., rut off owing to war conditions, The situation in this country, how- ever, has been materially changed Since the tirst of the year. At that time the Iuternatienal Sugar tleen- nmission of New York, tthich handles the rate sugar of this imminent, al- locating. and distributing the amoulits in Canada and the United States, ax well as other countries, considered that there was snfrieient stiger in Cuba to allow Canada 320,000 tette as against 400,000 imported last ;amp. As Canada last year exported 5,u00 tons of refined sugar, her emi.sumptinn was then 345,000 tone and this :ear at 520,000 tans her supply would be reduced merely by 25,000 tons or , which would not have been a se•vt•I'v hardship upon anybody or merle in'.ich disturbance in the trade. In ad•li- tion to this outlook the Commis -ten expected to have it surplus of 700,00 tons to work on later, of wllieh Canada's shine would be 70,000 tons ON 10%, so that before the year was out this country would have been sup- plied, under former arrangements, with 45,000 tons more sugar this year then last. Consequently there was no necessity for the Food Board pla.iug any restrictions upon the consumption of sugar in this country, in view of the fact that trans-Atlantic shipping was so taken up with other more vital cargoes that space could not be speared for sugar. Wheat, meat, mmritiens and men for the army aro more int- peratively needed in Europe than even sugar, and there are not ships enough' to carry everything. It was expected, however, that there would be shipping enough in the coastwise trade of the United States to bring raw sugar from Cuba anti the West Indies to New York and oth- er American points. Owing, how- ever, to the congestion at the wharvee of the Atlantic Coast, the break down in railway transportation and the general and totally unexpected de- mand upon the American transporta • tion system generally, it has become a diffieult matter to mote the freight necessary for this country and the difficulty has not been overcome as yet. It was hoped that some ar- rangement, for bringing sugar divert from Cuba to Canadian ports, could have been effected but this attempt has have to be dropped. Shipping is not available, consequently the neve sugar regulations. MAKING TIE BEAVER WORK. Writer of This Article Would Con- script Them as Fire Rangers. While beaver have generally been 'onsideed somewhat hostile to the ,inroads of civilization and averse to having near neighbors, it has occur- red to the writer from observatinns made this summer that they might be prevailed upon, albeit unconsciously, I to relinquish this theory, and turn their well known industry to good ad- vantage in the development of this district, says a Detroit ranger. It has been my privilege, while covering nay district during the past year, to see considerable of a beaver colony and their work. This particu- lar colony hue chosen as a home, Judicial Ditch No. 13, the main drain- age ditch in the lower Rapid river district one-half mile south of Bau= Bette and Spooner, on one of the three main highways leading to tho two towne, , The dam is about thirty feet long and lnolde about a nine -foot head of water. Not having access to green popple, which is their preference for food and construction work, they have adapted themselves to their sur- roundings, and have cut the scrub alder and willow from the ditch bank and skidded dry tamarack and spruce from adjoining lands. Combining this with a good supply of weeds and mutt, they have constructed a dam that is almost as impervious as con- crete. Settlers have in a number of instances been compelled to destroy part of the dam, its it hinders drain- age for a distance of about two miles, hue; invariably the following morning the dam is complete and full of water. • One evening last week while going in an auto, it was neces- sary to stop the machine in order to mance way for a big husky who was trying to drag a largo tamarack across the road. We ran the ma- chine up to within twenty feet of him, but he tenaciously hung on until the log was elanded ht the pond, and then quickly disappeared. The point I wish to bring out is that it might be an excellent idea to press a few of these fellows into ser- vice, and have them conserve the water at strategic pointe for use on thee° peat•grade fires which aro causing us no and of trouble jest at present. "I detest croaking.. My only amid - lion is to be remembered, if *cement-• tiered et all, as one who knew and vn.lued national independence, and would maintain it in titre present strug- gle tsi the lust man and aha last guinea, though the last guinea were my own property, and tho last man my own "ion." ---Sir Walter Seta,